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International anthology of sound poetry by Arrigolora Totino, Carl Stone, Jim Roche, Larry Wendt, Co-Accident, Paul Vangelisti, Adriano Spatola and F. Tiziano, Dominic Alleluia, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato de Pero, Bob Davis, Lily Greenham, Donna Henes, Lawrence Kucharz, Giulia Niccolai, Audio Players, Bill Gaglione, Ed Rossman, E.T. Simon, Tony Gnazzo, Milli Graffi, Julien Blaine, William Moylan

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Episode 3 • Interview with Dennis Phillips

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Dennis Phillips

The Cartographer's Lament

Dennis Phillips

$19.00

Pub. Date: November 14, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9926955-2-6

Magra Books is pleased to announce the publication of The Cartographer’s Lament, by Dennis Phillips. Now included in this masterful, book-length sequence, Magra first published Phillips’ 17 Meditations on Time in 2021. The poet, in his Lament, seeks to capture the evanescent, to grasp the ungraspable, wrestling with that oldest and most unmappable of mysteries, time. In this remarkable project, Phillips shows himself to be a true practitioner of the impossible.

Book designed by River Jukes-Hudson
with Drawings by Courtney Gregg

Dennis Phillips

Sonnets

Dennis Phillips

$10.00

As with his two previous titles for Magra Books, Desert Sequence and 17 Meditations on Time, Dennis Phillips continues his explorations into harmony and time with this sequence of 14-line poems, Sonnets. His rhythms respond to the pulse of everyday life, with a language consistently tuneful and precise. From his readings of Dante to the early sunlight lending grace to the trees outside his window, the poet steadfastly dwells in these brief excursions.

Drawings by Courtney Gregg.

Dennis Phillips

Dennis Phillips

17 Meditations on Time

Dennis Phillips

$10.00

In 17 Meditations on Time Dennis Phillips tries to capture the evanescent, to grasp the ungraspable, wrestling with that oldest and most unmappable of mysteries, time. In 2019 Talisman House brought out Mappa Mundi, Phillips’ 17th volume of poetry. With Mappa Mundi the book setting a predicate for “Mappa Mundi” the project, Phillips has written a second volume, The Cartographer’s Lament. Continuing the exploration of themes and variations, the Lament consists of ten sections, of which “17 Meditations on Time” is the second section.

Dennis Phillips

Magra BooksOctober 23, 2017poetry, interview, poetry reading, literature, literary, Dennis Phillips

Episode 2 • The Dodo, or The School for Night

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Corrado Costa

The Dodo: or the School for Night

Corrado Costa

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A previously uncollected and unpublished radio drama by the ground-breaking Italian poet Corrado Costa. Never part of Costa’s collected writings in Italian, The Dodo was composed in 1979-1980 for Pacifica Radio’s “Los Angeles Theater of the Ear” (L.A.T.E.) and premiered on KPFK Radio in Los Angeles in March 1980. The contemporary and the ancient mix in dizzying fashion in this one-act drama, driving the listener/reader to seek shelter in a shelter-less and unremitting aural landscape. “Who’s there?” one is finally forced to exclaim, along with the main character ringing, as well as the characters answering their door bells.

With several of Corrado Costa’s witty & curious drawings to highlight the script.

Corrado Costa

Magra BooksOctober 23, 2017Corrado Costa, the dodo, radio, radio play, translation, literature

Episode 1 • An Evening with Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges interviewed in 1976 in Los Angeles at UCLA.

Special thanks to the Pacifica Radio Archive for their generous support. Explore their extensive collections here: https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org

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Magra BooksOctober 23, 2017Jorge Luis Borges, interview, literature, literary, poetry

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